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billionaire

[ bil-yuh-nair, bil-yuh-nair ]

noun

  1. a person who has assets worth a billion or more dollars, euros, etc.


billionaire

/ ˌbɪljəˈnɛə /

noun

  1. a person whose assets are worth over a billion of the monetary units of his country


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Word History and Origins

Origin of billionaire1

First recorded in 1855–60, Americanism; billion + -aire, on the model of millionaire

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Example Sentences

That’s what billionaires like Bezos can easily do if they want their money to make the biggest difference.

Public Citizen, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization, reported that the center advocates for government deregulation and receives funding from Charles Koch, the billionaire philanthropist whose company is tied to the fossil fuel industry.

At least five people connected to Moderna and BioNTech are now billionaires, including Bancel.

The pro-democracy forces were up against a Trumpified Michigan GOP controlled by allies of Ronna McDaniel, the Republican National Committee chair, and Betsy DeVos, the former Education Secretary and a member of a billionaire family of GOP donors.

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He hasn’t signed the Giving Pledge, founded by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates in 2010, which calls on billionaires to pledge the majority of wealth to charity.

To most of the world, billionaire Jeffrey Epstein is a convicted sex offender and a financial grifter.

The billionaire philanthropist tastes the product of a machine that processes human sewage into drinking water and electricity.

The bromance between the Russian president and the billionaire ex-prime minister of Italy goes way back.

The right-leaning tech billionaire offers a look into how Silicon Valley could transform the way we think about politics.

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg already had the gun lobby in his sights.

Another billionaire, Mr. Carnegie, gives his millions to found libraries.

The millionaire is a very ordinary individual in America; it is only the billionaire who now really attracts attention.

I know a billionaire, at least this is his reputation, who has no standing merely because he is vulgar—that is, ill-bred.

Overnight Ben Wrail had become a billionaire many times over.

Either Pepe would make his move—or I would sail on to my billionaire's paradise planet.

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